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Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by kevincox »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #15

Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.

I don't see the problem here. It has an RSS feed so you can easily use an podcatcher you want https://anchor.fm/s/7735d924/podcast/rss

Really the main concern I would say is that the author doesn't own the domain so they are locked in, but I don't see how this affects listeners.

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by mtlynch »

stavros wrote: post #23
yessirwhatever wrote: post #15

Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.

I didn't much love hosting on Anchor/Spotify, but I made this in half an hour and I didn't want to have to get into RSS/site generation. Do you know of an easy way to dump audio files and some metadata somewhere and get a Podcast with RSS? I can upload there as well. I'll try Polly, thanks! The current voice annoys me too.

The main problem is giving out the anchor.fm domain for your RSS feed, as it marries you to Anchor forever. In theory, you can get anchor to 301 redirect your subscribers somewhere else, but I've found that podcast clients tend to keep the old URL.

You can use Anchor to generate your RSS feed and host your content while still sharing the RSS URL on a domain you own. So you'd give out a URL like feeds.deepdreams.com/rss, and it would proxy the response from Anchor's RSS feed

I wrote a simple Go cloud function that can proxy your Anchor RSS URL for you:

https://github.com/mtlynch/rss-proxy

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by stavros »

sandGorgon wrote: post #44

this is so cool! is this your startup or is the code opensource ? would love to play around with the code.

Neither, it's a 30-line script I wrote yesterday. There are no secrets in the code, so here you go: https://www.pastery.net/vafgxn/

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by trutannus »

junon wrote: post #58

Cool idea but that voice is like sandpaper to my ears. Maybe a female voice, a bit quieter (the soundscapes are almost completely silent for me) and maybe add some high-room-size, long decay (5-10, maybe even 20 seconds), wide panned (like 100%) and moderately diffused (maybe 10-20%) reverb to the voice with like 30% mix or so, which would add a very airy tone and help the voice blend in a bit. If the TTS engine has…

There's also a few TTS systems which are pretty natural sounding too. Maybe one of those if they wanted to make a subscription for this, that way they could offset the price of the TTS service

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by stavros »

junon wrote: post #58

Cool idea but that voice is like sandpaper to my ears. Maybe a female voice, a bit quieter (the soundscapes are almost completely silent for me) and maybe add some high-room-size, long decay (5-10, maybe even 20 seconds), wide panned (like 100%) and moderately diffused (maybe 10-20%) reverb to the voice with like 30% mix or so, which would add a very airy tone and help the voice blend in a bit. If the TTS engine has…

This is great feedback, thanks! Maybe I should open-source the code.

Actually, fuck it:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams

I'll implement your suggestions (or as many as I can), thanks!

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by stavros »

bambax wrote: post #55
stavros wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it might have taken 45'. It's all auto-generated, it was really quick. I wrote a script later to automate the audio mixing, that took another hour. Now I can generate a ready-to-upload episode with one command, though.

I think most people here would be interested in a write-up.

Oh, good idea. I'll do that!
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